Mark Carney’s government has been trying to reach a new trade accord with the U.S., but most Canadians are skeptical that President Donald Trump will keep his word on any deal.
Four in five Canadians say they think it’s unlikely that Trump would honour a future trade agreement with their country, according to a poll by Nanos Research Group conducted for Bloomberg News.
Toronto man charged after allegedly sending threatening, hateful emails to several institutions
Where was Canada when the world gathered in Washington to decide the future of Ukraine? Where was our prime minister when President Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron, and Keir Starmer took historic steps toward peace?
OTTAWA — Canada is celebrated abroad as a safe, prosperous, and open society. But beneath the surface, a far more precarious reality is taking shape. The pillars of our economy — land, real estate, natural resources, and immigration — have been left vulnerable to foreign manipulation, criminal exploitation, and political negligence. The result is what can only be described as a sandcastle economy — striking at first glance, but fragile. Like the parable of the house built on sand, it is a foundation vulnerable to give way when the storm comes.
To you with failing hands we throw … the stent? Really? Shall Canadians rally round the oxygen monitor and stand by to repel bacteria? So the polls show.
The National Post reports an Angus Reid survey finding that a significant majority of us favour compulsory voluntary service by the youth of today. Which might sound like a bracingly traditional Jordan Peterson clean-your-room, stand-up-straight, shoulders-back attitude until you read the fine print, which would risk making Peterson ill if he weren’t already. Because it turns out we want to conscript them to work in health care so we get stuff we didn’t pay for, not to defend the country because if ye break faith and so on.
Not many people think a 3rd World Dumpster state is worth defending. Funny that.
A Newmarket man accused of plotting to leave Canada to join ISIS while still a youth has been ordered to sign a terrorism peace bond requiring him to remain in the country and avoid extremist material on social media, where prosecutors allege he became immersed in hateful content.
The now 19-year-old was arrested last December by the RCMP in connection with a terrorism investigation and was released from custody that same day on strict conditions pending the outcome of a peace bond application. His identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was a teen at the onset of the investigation.
Joining a bloodthirsty band of Muslim fanatics is not exactly a “Youth Plot”.
At Folklorama’s Israel Pavilion, Shalom Square, held at the Jewish Community Centre in Winnipeg this past week, attendees faced something that should be unthinkable in Canada. An unruly mob openly celebrated Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, directly harassing Jewish community members, their supporters, and guests of all faiths and nationalities for several hours. Frightening threats were shouted, including vile sexualized slurs aimed at women and girls and menacing declarations like, “Hamas is coming for you.” This was not just offensive speech — it was a breach of Canadian law, a violation of the basic right to safety, and a profound failure of leadership.
This starts right at the top, but hey now we can burn pavilions at Folkfest!
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Canada’s union leaders want the Liberals to stop using a contentious piece of the country’s labour code and are prepared to back Air Canada’s flight attendants in their illegal strike to draw a “line in the concrete’” with the Carney government.
A tentative deal was reached early Tuesday between Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), but not before the federal government had invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to force flight attendants back to work. That section allows the jobs minister to direct the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order parties into arbitration or end strikes to “secure industrial peace.” The Liberal government has used it eight times since 2024 to end strikes or lockouts, including work stoppages at railways and port strikes.
There was an interesting — albeit brief — recent eruption of clarity in the ongoing saga of whether Canada intends to proceed with the full order of American-made F-35 fighters.
It was courtesy of the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, who perhaps spoke the quiet part out loud last week in an interview with Canadian independent podcaster Jasmin Laine.
Hoekstra, a no-nonsense Republican from Michigan, was asked about the Liberal government’s review of the $27.7-billion purchase of stealth fighters and the possibility that after delivery of the first tranche of jets, Canada could decide to fill the rest of its order with another type of aircraft.
A recent landmark court ruling in B.C. upheld the indigenous right to reclaim ancestral lands by granting title and fishing rights to the Cowichan Nation in regions of the Lower Mainland based on their historic territory.
The court’s Aug. 7 decision references case law and a “senior interest” of aboriginal groups to regain the lands, even if they’re now held by government or private third parties. The province has said it will repeal the ruling.
Canada’s immigration approach is becoming more exclusionary. It’s not the direction we should be heading
In 2023, Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that explicitly banned nearly all Chinese immigrants for nearly a quarter century. Many see it as a black mark in Canadian history because it deliberately targeted and expelled the very Chinese labourers who had done the dangerous, back-breaking work of building the Canadian Pacific Railway, only to be cast aside once their labour was no longer needed.
The centenary was a moment of reflection. But since then, Canada has become more restrictive, not less. Rising immigration refusal rates, while not racially explicit, are carrying the pattern of exclusion forward.
About the “author” – Yvonne Su is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University and a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently declared on CNN that in Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump is the “most disliked politician in the world . . . because he has attacked his closest family member.” In January, just before Mark Carney announced his leadership bid for the Liberal Party, he appeared on The Daily Show and told Americans that Canada and the United States could be “friends with benefits.” Are prominent U.S. leaders making time for media appearances to defend Canada as their “closest family member”?
Believing that trading partners are family, or friends even, betrays our leaders’ wide-eyed view of the world that not even historical precedent appears able to shake. It has invited complacency and deepens the damaging economic consequences when trade relationships evolve or break apart.
A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants, both the airline and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced Tuesday.
CUPE, which represents more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, said that after nine hours of talks with the assistance of the chief mediator appointed by the federal government, the deal struck will be presented to its membership, who will have an opportunity to ratify it.
Earlier this month, the B.C. Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision of British Columbia’s Hospital Appeal Board that resulted in Dr. Theresa Szezepaniak being suspended, and effectively fired, for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
Szezepaniak argued that she should not have been disciplined for refusing to follow Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry’s October 2021 public health order (PHO), which required all doctors and nurses working in hospitals to be vaccinated.
In whom do you have more faith, judges or politicians? For many Canadians, this question is about which group they trust the least, and not about which group they trust the most. A person’s answer to this question will largely determine whether she or he likes or dislikes Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly known as the “notwithstanding clause.”
